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    FAMILY BURSERACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or treesplay

    Synonyms:

    Burseraceae; family Burseraceae; torchwood family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Burseraceae" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "family Burseraceae"):

    incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)

    Bursera; genus Bursera (type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi)

    Boswellia; genus Boswellia (genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense)

    Commiphora; genus Commiphora (genus of East Indian and African trees yielding balsamic products)

    genus Protium; Protium (genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi)

    Holonyms ("family Burseraceae" is a member of...):

    Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)

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